If you turn your eye to my sidebar, you will notice that I now proudly display a Silver Endorsement from the Church of Cayennetology.
By way of thanks, I have taken the time to generate this carefully constructed acceptance statement using the excellent tool over at Atom.com:
Thank you so much. But really, it’s just an honor to be nominated alongside so many other mediocre bloggers. I want to thank my agent, who stuck with me after I was found fraking that toaster. I better stop now before I say something distrubing. Thank you, and KAAAAAAHHHHN!!
Fraking? If that means something like “emulating Jonathan Frakes”, then it is indeed disturbing.
“Frak” is what one does to re-imagined toasters. You can only “frack” original 1978 toasters.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frak_(expletive) for verification.
That said, there does seem to be a consensus that the re-imaged verb takes a double “k” in the gerund, and a few other forms. This brings it in line with conventionally accepted English spelling rules and removes the spectre of William Riker. It also compromises the vision of “frak” as a truly four-letter word.
Other trivia from the Wikipedia article:
“Fräck (spelled with the umlaut ‘ä’) is also the product name of a shaving mirror produced by IKEA, a multinational home products retailer. Most IKEA product names are in Swedish, and fräck is the Swedish word for audacious, shameless or bold (while frack, without ä, would translate to tailcoat). In the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series, a mirror of this type is installed in the cabin of William Adama.”